You will know that Elluminate and Wimba were both taken over by BlackBoard earlier this year, and merged into a new concern called BlackBoard Collaborate. At an online webinar yesterday, the plans for the new company were outlined. A total of 236 people attended the session, which used Elluminate as its platform. It very quicklyRead more
The HEFCE Online Learning Taskforce, about which I blogged back in the summer, has just published a Study of UK Online Learning which it commissioned from the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford. You can download the study from here. Comments on the findings of the report to follow…Read more
As regular readers of this blog will know, over the last 6 months the University has funded a set of online distance learning development projects through the Distance Learning Fund. This covered 7 academic departments, with another project focused on the supporting IT infrastructure (including expansion of the ReVIEW lecture capture system and the ElluminateRead more
(Translation: why not consider sending a mobile phone text message to your Distance Learning students?) As part of the current Distance Learning Fund programme, we now have an institutional licence for the TxTtools service and their MoodleTxT ‘plug-in’ which allows text (SMS) messages to be composed and sent to students from within Learn module pages.Read more
On Friday 25th I represented Loughborough at the Online Learning Task Force event hosted at the British Library. Chaired by Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the BL, the session was an opportunity for universities to engage with the high-level government-appointed task force as it approaches the conclusion of its year-long project. Some of theRead more
(Translation: why not consider sending a mobile phone text message to your Distance Learning students?) As part of the current Distance Learning Fund programme, we now have an institutional licence for the TxTtools service and their MoodleTxT ‘plug-in’ which allows text (SMS) messages to be composed and sent to students from within Learn module pages.Read more
As part of the current round of Distance Learning Fund projects (about which more in due course), we’re been looking over the last few weeks at which web conferencing tool best suits our needs in supporting teaching and learning at Loughborough. The 15-strong longlist of contenders included several tools which are already used by differentRead more